Javier Espinosa

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Two Spanish journalists were freed after being held captive in
Syria for more than six months, according to news reports. The journalists--Javier
Espinosa and Ricardo Garcia Vilanova--are back in Spain,
according to news
sources.

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Istanbul, December 19, 2013--A Turkish journalist is the latest
reporter to be abducted in Syria, where approximately 30 journalists are missing,
the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Bünyamin Aygün, a photojournalist
for the daily Milliyet, was abducted in
November, but the case was not made public before this week.

New York, December 10, 2013--The Committee
to Protect Journalists calls for the immediate release of two Spanish
journalists who were abducted in Syria almost three months ago. Javier Espinosa
and Ricardo Garcia Vilanova have been held captive by the Al-Qaeda affiliate
Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) since September 16, the families of the
journalists announced today.

Syria and Libya were
the main themes at the 19th edition of the Bayeux-Calvados Prize for
War Correspondents, which took place this weekend in the historical city of
Bayeux, a few miles away from the Normandy beaches where Allied forces landed
in June 1944 to liberate Europe from the Nazi yoke.

A report on the first anniversary of the Syrian uprising

Weeks of sporadic protests seeking government reform burst into
full-fledged unrest on March 15, 2011, when thousands of demonstrators gathered
in four Syrian cities. Within days, authorities had cut off news media access
to Daraa, a center of the unrest, beginning a sustained effort to shut down international
news coverage of the uprising and the government's increasingly violent
crackdown. As the civilian death toll has reached well into the thousands,
according to U.N. figures, the last four months have taken a particularly dark
turn for the press. Eight
local and international journalists have been killed on duty since November, at
least five in circumstances that raise questions about government culpability. Yet
one year after the Syrian uprising began, killing the messenger has not
silenced the message.

New York, February
24, 2012--Syrian authorities must heed the call issued by more than 60
countries today to stop the ongoing shelling in Syria, and allow medical access
and safe passage to the wounded and dead journalists trapped in Homs, the
Committee to Protect Journalists said today.